He had a retentive memory and active mind; he settled in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and set himself to work to construct a machine for the carding of wool, which at that time was done wholly by hand.
Hand wheels were superseded by common jennies, hand carding by carding engines, and hand picking[19] by the fly shuttle.
As for the minder, Sally Groves, she seemed built and born to tend a Carding Machine.
The massive figure of Sally Groves lumbered at her ministry, where she fed the Carding Machine.
A valentine or two and the portrait of a gamekeeper and his dog hung beside the carding machine; for Sally Groves had retired and a younger woman was in her place.
They had followed the flat ribbon of sliver from the Carding Machine.
For instance, there was Lewis Paul's carding engine; he introduced that into Lancashire and added to it a stripping comb, or doffer, that made it about fifty per cent.
The carding lengthens or stretches them to the size of one and therefore you get a greater uniformity of size.
Sometimes, though, it happens that an order comes for a crackajack fine yarn of the best possible quality and then another combing or carding process follows which takes out everything shorter than fibers of a specified length.
These speeders are in the carding rooms, which are large and high, filled with great belts geared from above, and machines placed in long lanes, where the operatives stand and walk at their work.
From these the yarn goes to the winding room in the newer building, where better air and temperature are possible than in the carding and spinning rooms.
The other goody, she took a pair of carding combs, and began to card wool; but she had no wool on them.
The cardingis generally done by hired servants, as above; these operations hand on the wool to the next, which is common to both, viz.
It would not be illuminating for a searcher having little familiarity with the textile arts to look under the title "Carding" and find that cardingis defined as a means for carding fiber.
When Rufus was eight years old he was employed in the carding department of the Nashua company's mills during his school vacations.
After attending school here for a short time he again went into the mill in the carding department on the Lawrence corporation.
Lewis Paul introduced revolving cylinders for carding the raw cotton into rovings preparatory to spinning, in partial imitation perhaps of Arkwright's principle of spinning the rovings by the rotatory motion of rollers.
So she rode on for a long way, and then came to another old woman, who was playing with a golden carding comb; and she asked her the way to the Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon?
And she gave her the golden carding comb, and lent her a horse just like the first one.
A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.
Over a while she rises and exclaims:-- "Cuss the carding and spinning!
Then she assisted the old dame in her household work and in carding and spinning--more because constant exercise made her think less of her loss than from any necessity for exertion to gain a livelihood.
Duffy seated, carding and making rolls of wool, which were placed in a cayer (winnowing sieve.
The cottoncarding machine, which cleans the cotton.
The flax comes from this machine in a rope and is something like the cotton rope or roving as it leaves the carding machine; but flax is brown and stiff, not so soft as cotton.
Tow is often put in a carding machine and made into yarn for coarser purposes; but the long straight line is used for the better materials.
The machine which helps to produce these ropes is called the carding machine.
What does the process of carding do to the cotton or wool?
The wool manufacturer, therefore, blends, or mixes, the wool before it is sent to the carding machine.
Do you remember that the cotton at the factory passed through a carding machine to be cleaned and made into a cotton rope?
Why is carding an important process in the manufacture of cloth made from wool?
Then the girls watched the men place this roll at the back of the next machine, called a carding machine (Fig.
In many cooperatives one may see a quaint mixture of old and new, where big flywheels are turned by human labor to maintain the spin of lathes, carding machines, and the like.
In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
These settlements have a good water grist mill, carding machine, steam sawmill, and a good pottery, all in successful operation.
His wife, who was ninety-three years old, I found quite smart, and busy carding wool.
His possessions consisted of a large farm well stocked with cattle, a flour mill, a saw mill, and a carding machine.
Similar improvements have now been made in carding frames, by which one-half the operatives have been thrown out of employment.
In many rooms of the cotton and flax- spinning mills, the air is filled with fibrous dust, which produces chest affections, especially among workers in the carding and combing-rooms.
Chivalry sanctioned by councils, and regarded as a form of Christianity .
Then day after day Dan and Zeb sawed together, making boards for the new house, while Nancy brought her carding or knitting and sat on a stump near by with the puppy at her feet or nosing about in the bushes.
The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
And aboard the Treyckshuyt it was all Singing and Dancing and Carding and drinking of Toasts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
